Section 226:
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
226. Parties – Respondents – When returning officer to be made party to
proceedings—Upon an election petition challenging the election of 3 candidates who had been returned for an electoral district,
HELD (i) the proper respondents to the petition were the persons who
had been returned for an electoral district.
(ii) as the petition and the particulars supplied contained nothing
which amounted to a complaint against the returning officer concerned so as
to make him a respondent to the petition, the petitioners were not bound to
make him a party to the proceedings. Rivalland v Chaperon (1953).